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THE  VISIT  OF  THE  JURORS 
IN  THE  PHEBE  A.  HEARST 
ARCHITECTURAL  COMPETITION 
UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 


[Reprinted  from  the  UNIVERSITY  CHRONICLE,  Vol.  II,  No.  4,  October, 


THE  VISIT  OF  THE  JURORS  IN  THE  HEARST 
ARCHITECTURAL  COMPETITION. 


On  the  morning  of  August  30,  1899,  the  four  architects 
who,  together  with  Mr.  J.  B.  Reinstein,  composed  the  jury 
of  the  final  competition  for  the  Phebe  A.  Hearst  Archi- 
tectural Plan  arrived  at  San  Francisco.  These  architects 
were  M.  J.  L.  Pascal,  of  Paris,  Dr.  Paul  Wallot,  of  Dresden, 
Mr.  John  Belcher,  of  London,  and  Mr.  Walter  Cook,  of 
New  York.  Mr.  R.  Norman  Shaw  had  been  the  English 
representative  in  the  preliminary  competition,  held  at 
Antwerp,  in  October,  1898,  but  on  account  of  his  illness 
his  place  had  been  assigned  to  Mr.  Belcher. 

On  the  afternoon  of  their  arrival  they  visited  Berkeley. 
On  the  campus  they  were  greeted  by  the  student-body,  Mr. 
Willsie  Martin,  of  the  Senior  Class,  making  the  speech  of 
welcome.  At  the  Library  an  informal  reception  was 
tendered  them  by  the  Faculty,  in  whose  behalf  Professor 
LeConte  made  a  brief  address.  In  the  evening  Mayor 
Phelan  received  the  jurors  in  the  rotunda  of  the  New  City 
Hall,  San  Francisco. 

On  the  evening  of  August  31,  Mrs.  Hearst  gave  a 
banquet  to  the  jurors  at  the  Palace  Hotel.  Mayor  James 
D.  Phelan  presided,  and  welcomed  the  jurors  in  Mrs. 
Hearst's  name.  M.  Pascal  responded  on  behalf  of  the 
jurors.  Regent  A.  S.  Hallidie  was  the  next  speaker;  and 
in  closing  he  proposed  the  health  of  Mrs.  Hearst,  to  which 
Professor  William  Carey  Jones  was  called  upon  to  respond. 
The  addresses  are  printed  below. 


The  jury  commenced  their  examination  of  the  drawings 
for  the  final  competition  on  the  morning  of  August  31, 
and  continued  their  study,  with  but  slight  intermission, 
until  September  7.  On  Saturday  afternoon,  September  2, 
they  visited  Mt.  Tamalpais,  spending  the  night  there,  and 
on  the  next  morning  they  went  by  special  train  to  Mrs. 
Hearst's  home,  the  Hacienda  del  Pozo  de  Verona,  near 
Pleasanton.  On  Monday  morning  they  visited  Berkeley, 
in  the  company  of  Professor  Jones  and  Mr.  Maybeck,  and 
inspected  the  grounds. 

On  the  evening  of  September  7,  the  Jury  having  com- 
pleted their  examination  of  the  plans,  and  being  ready  to 
make  their  awards,  Mrs.  Hearst  gave  a  reception  in  the 
Ferry  Building  to  some  two  thousand  persons. 

From  Saturday,  September  9,  to  the  following  Monday, 
the  jurors  were  the  guests  of  Mrs.  Hearst  at  Monterey. 
On  the  evening  of  September  10,  M.  Pascal  was  entertained 
by  the  Cercle- Franc. ais,  and  Dr.  Wallot  by  the  German- 
Americans  of  San  Francisco.  And  on  September  12,  the 
San  Francisco  Chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Architects  entertained  the  jurors  at  luncheon  at  the  Cliff 
House. 

On  the  evening  of  September  13,  the  visiting  jurors 
took  their  departure. 


ADDKESSES  AT  THE  BANQUET  TO  THE  JURORS. 


MAYOR  PHELAN'S  ADDRESS. 
Mrs.  Hearst  and  Gentlemen: 

On  behalf  of  Mrs.  Hearst,  I  desire  to  extend  a  cordial 
welcome  to  her  distinguished  guests,  who  grace  this  board 
this  evening.  We  of  San  Francisco  are  on  the  line  of  the 
world's  travel  and  hence  we  are  constantly  entertaining 
strangers.  This  we  are  always  glad  to  do;  but  to-day, 
however,  we  are  not  welcoming  strangers,  because  Art  has 


no  country.  Our  guests  this  evening  occupy  places  high 
in  their  profession,  and  have  simply  transferred  the  field 
of  their  activities  upon  the  invitation  of  Mrs.  Hearst,  from 
the  Eastern  States  and  Europe  to  San  Francisco  and 
Berkeley.  Therefore,  we  are  not  engaged  in  any  perfunc- 
tory display  of  hospitality.  They  come  not  to  receive,  but 
to  give.  They  are  about  to  bestow  a  great  benefit  upon 
us.  We  do  not  know  what  impressions  of  California  they 
may  carry  away  with  them,  but  in  common  with  other 
travelers,  they  no  doubt  had  their  misgivings  about  our 
commonwealth.  Calif ornians  are  apt  to  exaggerate  and 
perhaps  these  gentlemen  have  had  some  justification  for 
incredulity. 

The  designer  of  our  State  seal  represented  California  as 
a  Minerva,  fully  grown  and  equipped.  Now  after  a  lapse 
of  fifty  years,  we  find  that  Minerva,  the  Goddess  of  Wisdom, 
which  was  given  to  us  in  the  earlier  days  of  the  foundation 
of  the  State,  was  not  the  mature  goddess  she  was  repre- 
sented to  be,  for  lo!  we  are  asking  for  a  plan  after  our 
University  has  been  established  for  over  thirty  years.  The 
founders  of  the  University  may  have  had  a  plan,  but 
looking  over  the  ground,  it  seems  now  somewhat  nebulous. 

All  plans  are  subject  to  criticism,  and  there  are  those 
who  believe  that  if  they  had  been  present  at  the  creation,  they 
could  have  made  some  very  valuable  suggestions;  but  in 
devising  a  plan  such  as  would  last  for  all  time,  it  was 
reserved  for  Mrs.  Hearst  to  pay  the  highest  compliment  to 
the  State  by  saying  that  it  was  worthy  of  the  best,  and 
setting  aside  our  "territorial  sectarianism,"  so  peculiar  to 
us,  she  went  out  into  the  world  for  guidance  and  advice. 

California  may  boast  of  great  material  resources,  but 
we  have  never  claimed  that  we  are  in  a  position  to  teach  in 
matters  of  art,  architecture,  and  music.  We  still  owe 
instruction  to  the  great  centers  of  Eastern  and  European 
civilizations.  We  were  all  agreed  that  we  should  have  a 
plan  before  we  begin  the  serious  work  of  the  construction 
of  University  buildings  and  grounds,  and  the  question 


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before  us  was:  "Where  should  we  get  the  plan  and  how?" 
The  master  minds  of  the  world  of  architecture  should  be 
brought  in  competition ;  that  was  agreed :  but  the  Regents 
said  that  the  maintenance  of  the  University  absorbed  all 
their  funds,  and  if  a  proposal  of  this  kind  were  made,  Mr. 
Hallidie,  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee  of  the  Board 
of  Regents,  would  rise  in  his  place,  and  regret  that  money 
was  not  available.  If  the  Legislature  were  appealed  to, 
the  same  objections  would  be  made  and  hence  it  was 
necessary  that  private  beneficence  should  be  invoked;  but 
before  the  friends  of  the  University  had  decided  on  or 
indeed  thought  of  such  an  enterprise,  Mrs.  Hearst  made 
the  suggestion  herself  and  provided  the  means. 

At  Antwerp,  two  years  ago,  the  plans  to  the  number  of 
105,  were  submitted  to  the  jurors  who  are  sitting  with  us 
to-night,  Messrs.  Pascal,  Wallot,  Belcher,  Cook,  and 
Reinstein.  They  selected  11  competitors  as  being  worthy 
of  the  final  concours,  and  the  plans  of  these  gentlemen 
are  the  ones  which  will  be  finally  passed  upon  in  San 
Francisco. 

The  tireless  energy  of  that  indefatigable  champion  of 
the  University,  Mr.  Reinstein,  has  contributed  in  no  small 
degree  to  the  success  of  this  most  note- worthy  competition 
and  Mr.  Maybeck,  the  Professor  of  Architecture  of  the 
University,  has  ably  seconded  him. 

As  a  result  of  this  great  competition,  gentlemen,  Cali- 
fornia is  introduced  to  the  world  and  the  Berkeley  hills 
shall  be  crowned  with  the  noblest  structures  ever  devised 
by  man  for  the  education  of  youth.  The  thanks  of  the 
commonwealth  are  due  to  Mrs.  Hearst.  She  desires,  and 
I  am  honored  at  the  opportunity  of  proposing  the  health, 
happiness,  and  success  of  Messrs.  Pascal,  Wallot,  Cook, 
Belcher,  and  Reinstein;  and  call  upon  President  Pascal,  on 
behalf  of  his  colleagues,  to  respond. 


MONSIEUR  PASCAL'S  ADDRESS. 

In  the  year  1849,  when  I  was  a  child,  in  Paris,  I 
remember  seeing  a  party  of  adventurous  Frenchmen  march- 
ing along  with  music,  to  take  the  boat  for  Rouen  and 
Havre,  and  thence  to  California,  that  unknown  country  of 
the  New  World.  How  far  I  was  then  from  imagining  that 
one  day  I  should  have  to  address  you  here  in  San  Francisco, 
in  the  name  of  a  jury,  largely  composed  of  Europeans,  on 
the  subjects  which  interest  you  all  in  the  highest  degree;  on 
education,  on  literature,  on  science,  above  all  on  art, — 
that  sign  of  the  highest  civilization  of  a  people.  That  I  am 
called  upon  to  do  so  is  perhaps  as  much  the  privilege  of  age, 
as  it  is  an  honor  paid  to  my  native  country  and  its  arts. 

You  have  not  been  contented  that  your  growing  Uni- 
versity should  only  be  provided  with  the  most  perfect 
means  of  study,  that  its  professors  should  be  the  best  in 
each  branch  of  learning,  that  its  organization  should  be 
adapted  equally  to  its  present  resources  and  its  ultimate 
development;  that  its  scientific  equipment  should  be  ample 
for  the  present  and  the  future.  You  have  demanded  even 
more — a  still  higher  thought,  a  still  more  noble  conception 
has  made  you  feel  that  the  home  of  learning  here  must 
be  a  great  one  and  a  beautiful  one,  laid  out  on  a  plan 
at  once  logical  and  monumental,  fitted  for  your  present 
ambition  and  your  future  greatness.  You  have  wished 
that  your  buildings,  too,  should  be  a  part  of  the  education 
of  your  sons,  unconsciously  giving  them  that  feeling  for 
the  beautiful  that  comes  from  harmonious  and  just  propor- 
tion; and  that  they  should  constitute  a  monument  of  art 
worthy  of  your  State. 

And  if  to  some  of  you  the  influence  of  what  you  hopu 
to  obtain  seems  fugitive  and  as  though  it  might  leave  few 
traces  behind  it,  be  sure  that  before  long  you  will  see  that 
order,  arrangement,  and  noble  proportions,  beauty  of  form 
and  material;  and  a  fine  sympathy  between  nature  and 


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architecture  will  not  be  without  their  effect  on  the  young 
minds  of  your  students. 

It  is  to  to  this  end,  that  we,  whose  ancestors  paved  the 
way  for  your  civilization  of  to-day,  have  come  with  our 
colleague  from  New  York,  to  aid  you  in  your  choice. 
Eleven  architects,  of  incontestable  talent,  have  taken  part 
in  this  second  competition,  having  been  chosen  from  about 
a  hundred.  One  of  these  you  will  choose,  and  it  is  to  his 
initial  conception  that  the  future  University  will  owe  its 
form — each  succeeding  generation  contributing  its  part. 
So,  among  all  the  vicissitudes  and  the  revolutions  of  my 
troubled  country,  our  Republic  is  still  working  to  complete 
the  Versailles  of  Louis  XIV. 

For  the  execution  of  this  noble  plan,  the  generosity  of 
a  great-hearted  and  intelligent  woman  has  furnished  the 
resources.  It  is  she  who  has  made  this  International 
Competition,  the  greatest  of  modern  times,  a  possibility. 
It  is  she  who  has  so  ordered  our  long  journey  to  the 
Pacific,  that  our  memories  of  it  are  only  those  of  kindness 
and  of  attention  to  all  our  wishes  before  they  were  expressed; 
so  that  it  will  be  for  all  of  us  one  of  the  most  interesting 
in  our  lives  as  artists.  We  heartily  thank  her  for  all  this; 
and  to  express  the  heartiest  hopes  for  the  realization  of  all 
her  wishes,  knowing  that  she  has  none  dearer  than  the 
success  of  this  work,  we  wish  to  include  in  the  same  toast 
the  University  of  California  and  Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst. 


REGENT    HALLIDIE'S   ADDRESS. 
Mr.  Chairman: 

California  was  not  of  age  when  the  State  University 
was  organized,  and  a  generation  has  not  passed  since  that 
event.  The  schoolmaster  who  first  called  his  class  together 
in  San  Francisco  is  still  living.  The  son  of  California 
who  presides  at  this  table,  the  honored  Mayor  of  this  city, 
made  his  advent  after  California  had  become  a  State,  and 
he  took  up  the  activities  of  life  after  the  birth  of  the 


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University.  His  welcome  to  the  distinguished  gentlemen 
who  honor  us  with  their  presence  shows  his  appreciation  of 
the  State  that  gave  him  birth,  and  his  identification  with 
that  progress  in  affairs  that  helps  to  make  a  state,  build  a 
city,  and  give  dignity  to  its  surroundings. 

We  have  grown  up  in  a  hap-hazard  sort  of  a  way,  but 
Providence  has  been  kind  to  us,  and  we  have  often  builded 
better  than  we  knew.  The  deliberation  of  older  communities 
is  not  with  us,  nor  has  their  forethought  been  with  us;  and 
when  we  have  wanted  a  thing  we  have  wanted  it  badly,  and 
we  have  scarcely  had  time  to  breathe  until  we  got  it. 
Progress  is  everywhere  here  strongly  in  evidence,  but  it 
has  been  of  a  heterogeneous  nature,  and  often  we  have  had 
to  advance  backwards  in  order  to  make  enduring  progress. 

Our  friends,  the  guests  of  to-night,  who  have  come 
from  Dresden  and  London  and  Paris  and  New  York,  will 
probably  look  with  more  amazement  than  admiration  on 
the  varied  tastes  in  evidence  all  around  them,  and  I  fear 
they  will  be  inclined  to  give  more  credit  to  nature  than  to 
art  for  that  which  is  beautiful. 

Nature  sometimes  veils  herself,  and  yesterday  at  Berkeley 
she  refused  to  throw  open  to  them  the  full  beauty  of  the 
landscape  spread  out  in  front  of  them,  reserving  that  for  a 
postponed  pleasure. 

The  University  of  California — that  State  so  endeared  to 
us  by  our  many  early  trials,  so  beloved  by  us  through  its 
bounty  and  its  beauty,  its  sunshine  and  its  gladness — and 
that  University,  the  child  of  our  heart,  to  labor  for  which 
has  been  our  joy,  and  whose  manly  growth  has  filled  our 
eyes  with  tears  of  happiness  and  satisfaction. 

Who  is  there  in  this  room  that  has  not  felt  a  pleasure 
in  its  childhood,  and  a  satisfaction  in  its  adolescence? 
The  other  day  I  addressed  the  freshman  class,  530  as  bright 
and  refined  young  men  and  women  as  you  can  find  in  any 
part  of  the  world.  The  growth  of  the  noble  institution 
has  been  marvelous.  Ten  years  ago,  in  Berkeley,  it  had 
306  students,  and  60  names  on  its  salary  roll  of  $95,000. 


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To-day  it  has  1,700  students,  and  189  on  its  salary  roll  of 
$260,000  per  annum. 

The  general  government  and  the  State  have  been  liberal 
in  their  contributions.  Our  annual  income  exceeds  $400,000, 
but,  large  as  it  is,  it  does  not  supply  sufficient  fuel  to  keep 
the  fires  of  the  University  life  going.  Friends  have  come 
forward  and  chairs  have  been  created  by  private  means, 
that  of  philosophy  being  established  none  too  early  perhaps 
to  leaven  the  Board  of  Regents,  of  which  body  I  have  the 
honor  of  being  a  member. 

Under  the  pressure  of  circumstances  we  have  attempted 
to  house  the  faculty  and  the  students;  but  the  faculty 
of  being  students  of  the  beautiful  in  architecture  and  its 
possibilities  for  the  future,  does  not  appear  to  have  been  a 
well- developed  success.  We  have  a  magnificent  building 
site,  but  the  sight  of  the  buildings  is  not  magnificent,  and 
the  building  of  the  State  has  claimed  more  attention  than 
the  state  of  the  buildings.  But,  in  spite  of  all  this,  the 
University,  as  an  institution,  has  grown,  and  has  com- 
manded from  year  to  year  the  increasing  respect  of  the 
educational  world,  and  although  situate  on  the  westernmost 
limit  of  the  American  continent,  separated  from  the  rest  of 
national  life  by  two  great  mountain  chains  and  vast  spaces 
of  desert  land,  it  has  kept  in  touch  with  the  progressive 
spirit  of  the  age,  and  done  its  share  in  original  investigation. 

With  a  faculty  of  earnest,  thoughtful  men,  devoting  the 
best  in  them  to  the  work  before  them,  having  full  faith  in 
the  future,  and  active  in  their  pursuits  of  the  present,  why 
should  we  not  have  an  institution  of  learning  that  is  a 
credit  to  the  State,  an  honor  to  the  Nation?  Free,  abso- 
lutely free, — open  alike  to  men  and  women — what  restriction 
is  there  in  the  admission  to  its  portals  of  the  best  minds 
among  the  youths  of  the  country,  and  where  is  the  barrier 
that  can  deny  entrance  to  the  young  men  and  women 
however  poor  in  worldly  possession?  To  such  the  State  of 
California  extends  a  hearty  welcome.  But  yet,  free  as  it  is, 
you  know  and  I  know  that  some  of  the  best  and  brightest 


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need  encouragement  and  help  to  enable  them  to  drink  from 
this  fountain  of  knowledge. 

For  many  years  a  few  of  the  wealthy  and  thoughtful 
men  of  the  State  had  been  making  donations  to  its  different 
departments,  many  of  these  of  great  value,  and  perhaps  of 
greater  value  than  was  realized  at  the  time  because  they 
inspired  others  to  give.  One  day,  nearly  eight  years  ago, 
there  came  into  my  hands  a  letter  to  be  presented  to  the 
Board  of  Regents,  which  reads,  in  part,  as  follows: 

"It  is  my  intention  to  contribute  annually  to  the  funds 
of  the  University  of  California  the  sum  of  $1,500,  to  be 
used  for  five  $300  scholarships  for  worthy  young  women. 

"  Two  of  the  scholarships  are  to  be  given  this  jrear,  and 
the  remaining  three  at  the  beginning  of  the  August  term 
next  year.  I  bind  myself  to  pay  this  sum  during  my  life, 
and  I  have  provided  for  a  perpetual  fund  after  my  death. 

"  The  qualifications  entitling  students  to  the  scholarship 
shall  be  noble  character  and  high  aims,  it  being  understood 
that  without  the  assistance  here  given  a  University  course 
would  in  each  case  be  impossible. 

"PHEBE  A.  HEARST." 

Almost  immediately  thereafter  Mrs.  Hearst  increased 
the  number  from  five  to  eight.  That  letter,  the  spirit  and 
sentiment  of  the  gift,  for  the  first  time  brought  the  Uni- 
versity strictly  before  tjie  people,  and  made  them  realize 
that  it  deserved  to  be  cherished  and  nourished. 

The  Great  Architect,  when  he  created  California,  built 
it  on  a  plan  of  architectural  and  engineering  beauty. 
Within  the  great  range  of  mountains — the  Sierra  Nevadas 
— which  raise  their  heads  far  upwards  in  the  realm  of  the 
Great  Designer  and  form  the  eastern  boundary  of  the  State, 
and  the  range  of  hills  which  parallel  the  sea-shore,  are  the 
two  great  rivers,  one  coming  down  from  the  north,  the 
other  running  up  from  the  south,  meeting,  and  pouring 
jointly  their  fresh  waters  through  a  series  of  bays  into  the 
great  Bay  of  San  Francisco,  where  they  join  the  free  waters 
of  the  ocean  and  find  their  exit  to  the  broad  Pacific  Ocean 


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through  the  Golden  Gate.  Berkeley,  situate  on  the  hills 
overlooking  all  this,  receives  its  inspiration  from  the  broad 
Pacific  and  the  last  smile  of  the  setting  sun  as  it  kisses 
the  parting  day  and  sinks  in  the  western  horizon.  Is  it 
surprising,  then,  that  the  cry  of  the  University  is,  "Let 
there  be  light!"  and  that  the  answer  comes  from  the 
glorious  orb  after  it  has  absorbed  all  that  modern  civiliza- 
tion can  contribute  on  its  passage  through  Europe  and 
across  the  broad  continent  of  America  ? 

What  is  the  University  doing  to  warrant  these  extraor- 
dinary efforts  to  insure  her  future  glory  and  influence  for 
good,  and  to  justify  the  presence  of  these  distinguished 
architects,  the  guests  of  the  evening,  who  have  come  so  far 
from  the  various  centres  of  art  and  civilization  to  pass 
verdict  on  plans  that  shall  insure  harmony  and  homogeneity 
in  the  buildings  of  the  future,  and  who  have  come  at  the 
invitation  of  that  embodiment  of  the  womanhood  of  this 
State,  the  noble  and  distinguished  hostess  of  this  occasion? 

Let  us  see.  It  is  carrying  out  the  wishes  of  the  Nation 
in  maintaining  "at  least  one  college  where  the  leading 
object  shall  be,  without  excluding  other  scientific  and 
classical  studies  and  including  military  tactics,  to  teach 
such  branches  of  learning  as  are  related  to  agriculture  and 
the  mechanic  arts."  It  is  carrying  into  effect  the  agree- 
ment it  made  with  the  College  pf  California  "to  found 
and  maintain  a  University  which  shall  include  a  College 
of  Mines,  a  College  of  Civil  Engineering,  a  College  of 
Mechanics,  a  College  of  Agriculture,  an  Academic  College." 
It  is  keeping  faith  with  the  State  in  maintaining,  through 
affiliation  or  otherwise,  a  College  of  Law,  a  College  of 
Medicine,  a  College  each  of  Pharmacy,  Dentistry,  and 
Veterinary  Science.  By  means  of  four  agricultural  stations, 
located  at  different  parts  of  the  State,  it  is  making  experi- 
ments and  obtaining  economical  results  through  the  efforts 
of  a  staff  of  efficient  workers  in  each  station.  In  Forestry, 
it  has  two  stations  where  similar  work  is  being  performed. 
At  Mount  Hamilton  it  is  maintaining  an  efficient  and 


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admirably- equipped  astronomical  observatory,  with  the 
largest — but  one — telescope  in  the  world,  and  under  the 
direction  of  a  most  distinguished  astronomer  and  devoted 
corps  of  observers.  In  San  Francisco,  near  the  Potrero, 
there  is  being  constructed  under  the  direction  of  the 
Regents,  a  trade  school  that  will  by  its  teachings  annually 
make  150  boys  independent  in  future  life;  and  looking  to 
the  future  greatness  and  possibilities  of  the  University,  the 
governing  board  has  quite  recently  elected  for  its  President 
a  man  distinguished  in  the  world  of  letters  and  the  field  of 
education,  Professor  Benjamin  Ide  Wheeler,  of  Cornell, 
whose  absence  from  this  board  to-night  is  a  source  of 
regret  to  all. 

Outside  the  college  work  in  Berkeley  and  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, few  have  any  idea  of  the  extent  of  the  work  being 
done  by  the  University  throughout  the  State :  a  State  that 
contains  about  155,000  square  miles,  or  100,000,000  acres, 
with  climatic  conditions  which  vary,  necessarily,  within  the 
boundaries  of  ten  degrees  of  latitude  and  6,000  feet  of 
altitude,  and  under  the  influence  of  the  inland  winds  and 
the  ocean  breeze,  and  whose  natural  products  embrace 
almost  everything  that  can  be  produced  from  the  soil  or 
developed  from  the  depths  of  the  earth. 

The  work  which  is  being  done  by  the  State  of  California, 
through  the  Board  of  Regents,  for  the  people,  it  is  believed 
is  being  as  well  done  as  could  be  done  under  the  circum- 
stances. It  is  not  the  work  of  to-day  for  to-day,  but  it  is 
the  work  of  each  day  by  day  for  the  future.  Who  can  tell 
what  relation  the  State  of  California  will  bear  to  the  great 
Empires  to  the  west  of  us  across  the  sea,  or  to  the  islands 
of  the  Pacific,  fifty  years  hence  ?  And  beyond: 

"There  shall  be  sung  another  golden  age, 

The  rise  of  empire  and  of  arts, 
The  good  and  great  inspiring  epic  rage, 

The  wisest  heads  and  noblest  hearts. 
Not  such  as  Europe  breeds  in  her  decay, 

Such  as  she  bred  when  fresh  and  young, 


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When  heavenly  flames  did  animate  her  clay, 

By  future  poets  shall  be  sung. 
Westward  the  course  of  empire  takes  its  way, 

The  four  first  acts  already  past, 
A  fifth  shall  close  the  drama  with  the  day;— 

Time's  noblest  offspring  is  the  last." 

Thus  sang  Bishop  Berkeley  one  hundred  and  seventy- 
three  years  ago. 

The  theme  which  inspired  Berkeley  in  1726,  has  inspired 
in  these  days  a  noble  woman.  Do  you  doubt  my  earnest- 
ness and  sincerity  in  pledging,  standing,  with  the  loving- 
cup,  the  health  of  Phebe  A.  Hearst  ? 


PROFESSOR   JONES'    ADDRESS. 

An  intense,  devoted,  and  vital  pride  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia; a  mind  and  heart  cultivated  and  enlarged  by  long 
and  sympathetic  relations  with  philanthropic  and  educa- 
tional aspirations;  an  unusual  experience  in  the  life  and 
business  of  the  world;  an  artistic  intuition  cultivated  to 
the  point  of  knowledge  and  appreciation ;  a  loyal  devotion  to 
the  memory  of  her  husband,  and  a  desire  and  determination 
to  perpetuate  his  name,  in  the  most  worthy  and  honorable 
manner,  in  the  land  he  loved  so  well  and  served  so  honestly, 
so  generously,  and  so  faithfully; — these,  as  I  conceive, 
have  been  the  more  special  propelling  influences  which 
have  led  to  the  great,  the  splendid,  results  which  are  to  be 
disclosed  to  us. 

As  I  review  in  my  mind  the  history  of  this  enterprise,  I 
think  I  see  several  tendencies  combining  and  cooperating. 
The  first  of  these  is  a  general  tendency,  born  of  our 
surroundings  and  the  spirit  of  the  place.  It  flows  from 
our  life  in  California.  Nature,  formed  upon  a  large, 
generous,  and  beautiful  plan,  molds  man  to  ampler  propor- 
tions. While  there  may  be  the  common  strain  of  that 
which  is  narrow,  petty,  and  temporizing,  yet  there  is  a 
sentiment  which  in  the  long  run  rules,  and  allows  not  the 


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permanent  domination  of  the  mean,  sordid,  and  inharmoni- 
ous. Nature  here,  and  man  enlarged  by  the  beauties  and 
nobilities  of  nature  that  surround  him,  demand  that  human 
creations  shall  accord  with  the  physical  environment.  This 
is  the  matrix;  California  and  the  Calif ornian  spirit  is  the 
matrix,  out  of  which  was  born  the  Phebe  A.  Hearst  archi- 
tectural plan. 

Out  of  this  large  and  general  tendency  several  special 
tendencies,  running  their  course,  combined  to  the  produc- 
tion of  this  project.  The  first  of  these  was  manifested  in 
the  working  of  the  mind  of  our  gifted  Maybeck.  He  it 
was  who  conceived  that  the  University  structures  cumbering 
the  site  at  Berkeley  might  be  obliterated  and  a  noble  and 
harmonious  group  take  their  place.  Here  was  the  dream. 

The  second  tendency  came  forth  out  of  a  son  of  California, 
a  son  of  the  University,  the  broad- visioned  Reinstein.  He 
undertook  the  preparation  of  the  field,  the  sowing  and  the 
cultivating.  With  infinite  pains  he  gathered  opinions, 
ideas,  criticisms,  and  data.  He  formulated  a  practicable 
scheme.  Here  was  the  shaped  and  molded  idea. 

Now,  there  was  a  third  tendency  pursuing  its  course 
through  many  years,  that  at  the  right  time  showed  itself 
matured  in  the  large  and  generous  acts  of  Mrs.  Hearst. 
For  long  her  mind  and  life  had  been  developing  themselves 
for  the  execution  of  some  great  and  noble  service  to  Cali- 
fornia. It  was  no  mere  chance  that  led  Mrs.  Hearst  to  the 
adoption  of  the  scheme  for  the  housing  of  the  University 
with  beautiful  architectural  forms.  Nor  were  the  phases  in 
this  scheme,  which  I  have  spoken  of  as  particular  tendencies, 
properly  speaking  mere  successive  steps.  It  was  out  of  a 
long  self -development,  partly  unconscious  and  partly  of  a 
predetermined  purpose,  that  came  the  concentration  of  her 
thoughts  and  endeavors  to  the  accomplishment  of  this 
object.  Her  spontaneous  proffer  to  assume  the  obligation 
and  responsibility  was  the  beginning  of  an  achieved  result. 
Here  was  the  life  of  the  idea. 

The  progress  of  the  Phebe  A.  Hearst  architectural  plan 


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can  be  briefly  recapitulated.  Mrs.  Hearst  appointed  a 
board  of  three  trustees.  It  was  determined  to  have  an 
international  competition,  with  an  invitation  to  the  archi- 
tects of  all  countries  to  enter.  A  prospectus  announcing 
the  enterprise  was  published.  A  programme  outlining  the 
terms  of  the  international  competition,  and  giving  a  general 
and  detailed  account  of  the  work  to  be  done,  was  issued  on 
December  3,  1897. 

In  this  work  the  trustees  had  as  special  advisers  and 
coadjutors,  Pascal  and  Guadet  in  Paris,  Carrere  in  New 
York,  and  Pissis  in  San  Francisco.  It  is  no  disparagement 
to  the  many  others  who  cooperated  with  us  to  single  out 
and  mention  these  invaluable  aids.  The  architectural 
societies  of  America  and  Europe,  the  press,  both  professional 
and  general,  the  American  embassadors,  ministers,  and 
consuls  everywhere,  lent  their  aid  in  promoting  the  enter- 
prise and  disseminating  information. 

An  international  jury  was  appointed,  composed  of  the 
most  eminent  exemplars  of  their  art — M.  Pascal,  Dr. 
Wallot,  Mr.  Shaw,  and  Mr.  Cook.  To  these  was  added  a 
lay  member,  a  representative  of  the  University  and  of  the 
trustees,  Mr.  Reinstein.  They  met  at  Antwerp  in  October, 
1898.  There  they  found  one  hundred  and  five  plans  await- 
ing their  inspection. 

That  meeting  at  Antwerp  was  memorable  for  the  pur- 
poses for  which  it  was  held,  for  the  eminence  of  the  judges 
who  passed  upon  the  plans,  for  the  number  of  architects 
who  had  sent  in  designs,  for  the  striking  character  of  the 
designs  themselves,  and  for  the  enthusiasm  with  which  the 
officials  of  Antwerp  prepared  and  cared  for  the  competition, 
and  the  splendor  with  which  they  received  and  entertained 
Mrs.  Hearst  and  the  judges.  The  magnificent  Burgo- 
meister,  successor  of  the  long  line  of  civic  chiefs  of  that 
city,  offered  in  person  the  hospitality  of  the  community. 

The  result  of  the  deliberations  of  the  jury  was  the  selec- 
tion, out  of  the  one  hundred  and  five  plans  submitted,  of 
eleven  as  possessing  preeminent  marks  of  superiority.  They 


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were  a  unanimous  choice.  Then  came  the  visits  of  the 
authors  of  these  eleven  plans  to  California,  their  study  of 
the  problem  on  the  ground,  and  the  preparation  for  the 
final  competition. 

And  we  are  brought  now  face  to  face  with  this  final 
competition.  The  drawings  submitted  by  the  eleven  archi- 
tects entitled  to  enter  are  arranged  in  the  nave  of  the 
Ferry  Building  for  the  examination  of  the  jury.  And  here, 
to-night,  we  greet  and  welcome  these  gentlemen,  M.  Pascal, 
Dr.  Wallot,  Mr.  Belcher,  who  takes  the  place  of  Mr.  Shaw, 
and  Mr.  Cook.  Their  visit  here  is  a  notable  tribute  to  the 
art  which  they  represent,  and  a  notable  tribute  to  our 
enterprise  as  being  a  worthy  endeavor  to  advance  the  art  of 
architecture.  Although,  through  the  munificent  thought- 
fulness  of  Mrs.  Hearst,  their  journey  to  San  Francisco  has 
been  as  comfortable  and  luxurious  as  modern  travel  may  be 
made,  we  must  not  forget  that  they  are  men  devoted  to 
their  profession  and  busily  engaged  therein,  and  that  they 
have  left  their  ateliers  and  business  and  homes  to  render  us 
this  great  service. 

And  now,  Mr.  Mayor,  we  wish  to  add  to  the  felicita- 
tions of  this  evening,  which  is  graced  by  the  presence  of 
our  hostess,  of  the  distinguished  architects  who  are  the 
special  guests,  and  of  this  large  company  who  have  come 
to  do  them  and  our  hostess  honor,  to  congratulate  ourselves 
and  the  whole  community  that  San  Francisco  can  give  us 
for  presiding  officer  a  Mayor,  who,  by  his  culture,  his  public 
spirit,  and  the  wise  and  unremitting  observance  of  his  civic 
duties,  attests  the  fame  and  dignity  of  our  city.  As  at 
Antwerp,  so  in  San  Francisco,  our  guests  find  an  honorable 
and  worthy  Burgomeister  to  extend  to  them  the  freedom  of 
the  city  favored  by  their  presence. 

Gentlemen,  I  ask  you  to  rise  again  and  drink  to  this 

sentiment : 

"  A  lady  with  a  lamp  shall  stand 
In  the  whole  history  of  the  land, 
A  noble  type  of  good 
And  perfect  womanhood." 


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